#now

To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self. ↗

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

#knowledge #wisdom #religion

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#god #knowledge #religion #science #the-universe

Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms of religions and soothsayers and their made-up answers. ↗

— Mario Stinger

#atheism #fear #religion #unknown #religion

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. ↗

— Hippocrates

#knowledge #opinion #science #science

Knowledge: knowledge can be dangerous, dangerous for you or for others interacting with you, therefore again dangerous for you. Always treat it with respect. ↗

— Florian Armas

#respect

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#belief #god #interview #knowledge #religion

There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance. ↗

— Francis S. Collins

#biology #dna #hubris #human-genome #ignorance

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#knowledge #science #science

Size does matter. Nano even better. ↗

— Toba Beta

#science #technology #science

Progress had not invaded, science had not enlightened, the little hamlet of Pieuvrot, in Brittany. They were a simple, ignorant, superstitious set who lived there, and the luxuries of civilization were known to them as little as its learning. They toiled hard all the week on the ungrateful soil that yielded them but a bare subsistence in return; they went regularly to mass in the little rock-set chapel on Sundays and saint’s days; believed implicitly all that monsieur le cure said to them, and many things which he did not say; and they took all the unknown, not as magnificent but as diabolical ↗

— Eliza Lynn Linton

#religion #superstition #unknown #religion